ThePickards
standards, accessibility, and ranting and general stuff by the web chemist

…and my thoughts on what the story probably contains. Note that I managed to find all of these headlines on the BBC News site yesterday evening…
Global Warming Blamed On Man
…the man, a Mr. Arthur Jones of Chipping Sodbury, 37, has strenuously denied the claims, saying that while he had left his central heating on overnight [...]

Read: Round-up of News Headlines »

I don’t know a great deal about AJAX, DHTML and all that associated jazz, so I hadn’t actually been expecting to comment on the WAI’s work on their “Accessibility for Rich Internet Applications” (ARIA) suite.
Nonetheless, I’d suggest that — as they did for WCAG 2.0 after Joe Clark nagged them about it — that they [...]

Read: WAI Extension To Comment Period? »

As a little side note, I was delighted to see this joke be used as one of the questions on “The Weakest Link” a few weeks ago. No seriously, it was…
A blonde goes into a bar, walks up to the barman and asks for a double entendre.
So the barman gave her one.

Read: Friday Joke: Double Entendre »

There’s this gentleman I know who stuff keeps happening to. To be brutally honest, he generally brings it on himself. If you recall the story I told a couple of weeks back about the bloke who sent (what appeared to be) a nude picture of himself to his boss’s mobile entirely by accident, that’s him.
This [...]

Read: It could only happen to HIM. »